known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004‚ in the book Good Poems for Hard Times‚ depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure‚ Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age. This poem opens with an extreme and vivid simile‚ “The bright wire
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Compare how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ (page 36) and in one other poem from Conflict. In Mametz Wood‚ by Owen Sheers and Futility‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their separate perspectives of conflict and war are shown throughout‚ with the use of imagery‚ and personification to show the poets’ changes in emotion. Owen Sheers wrote his poem in the perspective of what happened in the past‚ with the poem being influenced by Sheers seeing a picture of a mass grave‚ provoking gruesome images
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“The Ball Poem” John Berryman‚ experienced a loss. He writes about the pain associated with that loss and the memories that were connected. John Berryman expresses Symbolism‚ Imagery‚ and Metaphors throughout his poem by telling his story as a child‚ and the significance behind what could be the grief of losing his father. Berryman writes in his poem about depression and sadness. He uses the little boy and the ball to compare to a situation that most of us readers have experienced. The poem isn’t given
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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relationships. Robert Browining‚ a great Victorian poet‚ wrote two pre-1940 poems‚ ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Prophyrias lover’‚ they are both examples of domineering me or individuals who end up killing their former lovers. The main theme which the poems are centred around is madness. ‘The Ballad’ on the other hand has an unknown poet‚ this could be as a result of it being passed down from one generation to another. All the three poems deal with the distorted image and status of women‚ and how this had an
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Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently
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Poem at 39 and Piano Poem at 39 is about a woman describing the relationship with her father. She first talks about how she misses him but the poet portrays a subtle sense of dislike and resentment. She says he was tired when she was born ‘How I miss my father I wish he had not been so tired when I was born. This makes her feel like she is not wanted as she has so many other siblings. A child that age would feel very bad if her father did not give it their love and attention and as they get older
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describe the setting of the poem? (the weather‚ atmosphere) 2. What effect does Porphyria have on the atmosphere in the cottage? 3. Why can’t Porphyria give herself to the narrator completely? 4. What does the narrator realise and how does this make him feel? 5. What does the narrator do and why? 6. What happens at the end of the poem? (Think about the lover’s frame of mind?) An Investigation into Porphyria’s Murder Remember: • This poem is a dramatic monologue. •
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Jordan Friedman Mrs. Kashmer English Period: 4 5-29-13 Writing to Compare Literary Works The following poems set a great example of imagery. The poet’s use of imagery adds to the meaning of each poem. Imagery describes a poem’s true meaning with the five senses. The images of blackberries help me understand the poet’s ideas within the words because of its vivid details. The visual images in line two have a clear picture of blackberry bushes filled with berries. Each adjective is like berry after
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INTERPRETATION OF A PUBLISCISTIC PIECE OF WRITING 1.INTRODUCTION (mention the author of the article‚ the source‚ the title of the article) a) The article\ essay\ extract\ text under analysis is intitled… b) It is written by …(an outstanding linguist and methodist…) 2.SUBJECT-MATTER OR ANNOTATION (the theme‚ the aim of the author‚ the gist\ the crux\ the essence\ the salt of the article) a) The author gives a clear picture of…\ the author aims at depicting… b) The author gives his
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